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“We have our ways”

“Are they legal ways?”

“Don’t ask me that The less you know about our plan, the better”

I gaped How could it be that behind all the luster and beauty of 10,000 Lux lay so?

Worse … could it be deadly?

I slipped frorip and his lap I stood in front of the fire, trying to ware hands clasping my biceps

/>“Ari, don’t let this upset you We’ll get it under control”

“By whatever means necessary?”

“I have the right to protectthat’s mine—I told you that before”

“But within the liht, Dane?”

“Of course, Ethan, Qadir, Nik, and I want to rectify this as sih, that when people of this nitude strike, you have to strike back It’s the only way they’ll respect our power”

I didn’t want to hear any o to save 10,000 Lux from shady poachers

So ood intentions with the secret society He’d had good intentions with the Lux It was perfectly within his realuard what he’d worked so hard to build I didn’t doubt that for a second

The terrifying part was that I truly did support hiacy It was the darkness around the fringes that tore atto do? How far were he and the others willing to go—on both sides?

And why did I feel I was soht in the middle?